Will Power made a late overtaking move to take the lead from Ryan Hunter-Reay to win the rain-shortened IndyCar season opener on the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil on Sunday.

The Australian passed the American with three laps to go to win the inaugural Sao Paulo Indy 300. It was his second career victory.

Power finished 1.858 seconds ahead of Hunter-Reay when the race ended at the two-hour time limit with 61 of the 75 scheduled laps completed.

The race had to be red-flagged near its halfway point after heavy rains made track conditions unsafe, marking another setback for the track, which initially was being hailed as one of the highlights of the season but faced problems throughout the weekend.

Home crowd favorite Vitor Meira was third, followed by compatriot Raphael Matos at the 2.6-mile, 11-turn Anhembi temporary circuit in South America’s biggest city.

Danica Patrick lost control of her car as it started raining and finished 15th.

The start of the race was marked by a scary incident involving Marco Andretti, who escaped injury after his car was hit from behind.

Fernando Alonso won the Bahrain Grand Prix in Sakhir in his debut for Ferrari and led the team to a 1-2 finish in Formula One’s season-opening race. Alonso passed teammate Felipe Massa at the second corner after the start and then overtook pole-sitter Sebastian Vettel, who was having engine troubles, on the 34th lap for a lead.

Massa passed Vettel soon after to claim second on his return to racing after a life-threatening crash last July in Hungary.

Michael Schumacher, who started seventh, was sixth in his first race in three years.

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Six-time defending series champion Tony Schumacher won the NHRA Top Fuel class at the Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla.